Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some the sound of popping corks is music of the sweetest; others fancy the tones of their own voice as reverberated by the tiled walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the angry, mosquito-like whine of an alarm-clock in the raw dusk of a winter morning may be welcome. But partisans of these noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue...
...people of Pittsburgh with such unsightly aspersions as you cast on the Pitt Panthers after such noted and praiseworthy accomplishments ? We of the Pittsburgh district like our Pirates, our Panthers and our pugilists-point with pride to their accomplishments in the realm of sport, and distinctly view with alarm any attempt on TIME'S part to minimize Pitt's position in the football world...
...college presidents of fifty years ago foreseen that baby football would develop to so huge a monster, it is certain they would have nursed him with some alarm. Had they foreseen that a part of their educational system was to grow, and swell, and put on airs until it became bigger than the whole, they would have taken due precautions to keep the usurper in his place. But they did not see. And in consequence, college football has now reached the point where many persons worship it as the acme of college purpose, as the sole standard of the merit...
Most of the adverse criticism I might have had to offer six months ago can no longer be applied. I, along with many other readers of my acquaintance, offer thanks that you have dropped the POINT WITH PRIDE and VIEW with ALARM columns. Also you are becoming more non-partisan than ever in dealing with political parties. For a time I thought you inclined a little too much towards favoring Democrats and "showing up" the Republicans. As to religious views, these too seem to have lately become fairer...
...many years it has been a Boston tradition that Freshmen should not be invited to debutante dances. Of late, however, hostesses have been departing from this rule, to the consequent alarm of the parents of Freshmen, the Dean's office, and the Lampoon. Lampy's protest is given in part below...